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Stop Hating Yourself | Russell Brand

Do you hate yourself, bloody hell, it seems so severe I don't even like saying it out loud but there have been times in my life sometimes not that long ago where I have felt self-hatred, when I break it down it's not that I hate my essence is maybe I hate behaviors or feel like I can't live with myself anymore, Eckhart Tolle used that phrase brilliantly, I can't live with myself anymore, recognising that that indicates even to people self-hatred is like that, I interpret it as a desire to immolate or burn the egoic individualized constructed self, I believe that even in negative impulses there is something positive that can be used, and this is a good example, the self-hatred can be regarded as a kind of awakening to the transition you require of yourself, as if part of you knows there is no future in the person that you've been living as, I can no longer be that man, I've had many times in my life where I felt I've had to transition between the person I wa

How to do Magic - An experiemnt with automatic article generator

I've been researching various ML techniques for analysing, creating and understanding texts, and along that path I've stumbled across various websites that claim they'll write an article on which ever topic you give them... So of course I gave them a topic "How to do Magic", because why not, right? Here's what they created: Magic does not belong to any one spiritual or religious path. These along with other traditions from around the globe have been passed down over the hundreds of years and are still very much in practice today. In the realm of Wicca, magical traditions have a tendency to be rooted in the hundreds of years old practices of the folk healers of Europe and also the ancient Hermetic philosophies rediscovered throughout the Renaissance. But while there are tried and true spells and methods that have been passed down over the generations, magic in Wicca is not at all a static art. New spells and new approaches to magical manifestation arise all